Amazon Can Use Whole Foods to Help Weather Postal Rate Hikes
- The company is bent on turning stores into distribution hubs
- Trump has urged the Postal Service to boost delivery charges
How Jeff Bezos Became the King of E-Commerce
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In recent tweets, President Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Postal Service to charge Amazon.com Inc. more to deliver packages to consumers -- a potentially costly blow since the e-commerce giant uses the federal agency for an estimated 40 percent of deliveries.
Reducing Amazon’s reliance on the USPS wouldn’t be simple -- and may not even be necessary -- but the world’s largest online retailer has been steadily putting together a shipping operation that one day could handle most of its deliveries and help offset a Trump-inspired disruption.